The World Is Too Much With Us By: W.

Wordsworth

The poet says that the people of his time were so busy in collecting money,
wealth, and fortune, spending their time of the day, they wasted their spiritual
power. They weren't interested in certain objects of nature. People sold their
hearts to the god of wealth and have no feelings left for enjoying the beauties
of nature. They don't have any love for the sight of moonlight falling on the
surface of the sea or the picture of the winds which make noisiness ( howling)
throughout the day but sleep like flowers at night.

The people of his time are not at all moved by the beautiful objects of nature.
The poet wants to be nurtured in the extinct creed of paganism. As a pagan, the
poet would have the opportunity of witnessing the sights of pagan gods like
Proteus and Triton.
‫ وأهدروا‬، ‫ وقضاء وقتهم من اليوم‬، ‫يقول الشاعر إن الناس في عصره كانوا مشغولين للغاية في جمع المال والغنى والثروة‬
‫ باع الناس قلوبهم إلله الثروة ولم يتبق لديهم مشاعر لالستمتاع‬.‫ لم يكونوا مهتمين بأشياء معينة من الطبيعة‬.‫قوتهم الروحية‬
‫ ليس لديهم أي حب لمنظر ضوء القمر الذي يسقط على سطح البحر أو صورة الرياح التي تصدر ضوضاء‬.‫بجمال الطبيعة‬
.‫(عواء) طوال اليوم ولكنهم ينامون مثل الزهور في الليل‬

‫ بصفته‬.‫ الشاعر يريد أن يتغذى على عقيدة الوثنية المنقرضة‬.‫لم يتأثر الناس في عصره على اإلطالق بأشياء الطبيعة الجميلة‬
.‫ ستتاح للشاعر فرصة مشاهدة مشاهد اآللهة الوثنية مثل بروتيوس وتريتون‬، ‫وثنيًا‬

Wordsworth loved the scenes of nature, he gives two beautiful pictures of

nature. What are they?

1-The picture of the sea bathed in moonlight.

2-The picture of the winds that sleep like flowers at night.

Wordsworth used two classical allusions in his poem :

1-Greek God '' Proteus'' was a sea god that rising from the sea.
2-Roman God '' Triton'' could sooth the restless waves of the sea by blowing his
wreathed horn.
‫ ما هم؟‬.‫ فهو يعطي صورتين جميلتين للطبيعة‬، ‫أحب وردزورث مشاهد الطبيعة‬

.‫ صورة البحر المغمور في ضوء القمر‬-1

.‫ صورة الرياح التي تنام كالزهور في الليل‬-2

:‫استخدم وردزورث اثنين من اإلشارات الكالسيكية في قصيدته‬

.‫اإلله اليوناني "بروتيوس" كان إله البحر الذي يرتفع من البحر‬-1
.‫ استطاع اإلله الروماني "تريتون" تهدئة أمواج البحر المضطربة عن طريق نفخ قرنه المكلل‬-2

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 Notes:
We are always busy running after the material pleasure of life.
'' Getting and Spending'': we waste our spiritual power by devoting all our time
to the pursuits of wealth.
The speaker of this poem wants to criticize modern civilization that lacks
imagination, the stuffiness of its creeds, the rush and push of its public life.
.‫نحن دائ ًما مشغولون بالركض وراء المتعة المادية للحياة‬
.‫ نهدر قوتنا الروحية بتكريس كل وقتنا للسعي وراء الثروة‬:"‫"التجميع واإلنفاق‬
‫ واندفاع الحياة العامة‬، ‫ وانسداد عقائدها‬، ‫يريد المتحدث في هذه القصيدة أن ينتقد الحضارة الحديثة التي تفتقر إلى الخيال‬
.‫ودفعها‬

The World Is Too Much With Us By: W. Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

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 S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834)
He was studied at Cambridge. He studied theology and philosophy. He is a poet,
a critic, a dramatist, a journalist, and a lecturer. He and Wordsworth
propounded more functions of poetry. He wrote '' The Biographia Literaria'' that
is a narrative book, full of chapters. So he is the co-founder of the romantic
movement.
‫ قدم هو ووردزورث المزيد‬.‫ شاعر وناقد وكاتب مسرحي وصحفي ومحاضر‬.‫ درس الالهوت والفلسفة‬.‫درس في كامبريدج‬
‫ لذا فهو المؤسس‬.‫" وهو كتاب سردي مليء بالفصول‬The Biographia Literaria" ‫ كتب كتاب‬.‫من وظائف الشعر‬
.‫المشارك للحركة الرومانسية‬
Features: -
1-The Supernatural‫خارق‬: -
Coleridge is considered as the greatest poet of the supernatural in English
literature. His aim was to make the supernatural appear natural. He revived the
supernatural as a literary force. He goes directly to the supernatural and the
fantastic and his imagination acquires true poetic distinction. He has the faculty
to make the mystery actual, real and obsessing. The supernatural objects are
representations of our own inward desires. The spectral objects are conditions
of our own mind.
‫ أعاد إحياء‬.‫ كان هدفه جعل األشياء الخارقة تبدو طبيعية‬.‫يعتبر كوليردج أعظم شاعر خارق للطبيعة في األدب اإلنجليزي‬
ً
‫ لديه القدرة‬.‫تميزا شعريًا حقيقيًا‬ ‫ يذهب مباشرة إلى ما هو خارق للطبيعة والخيال ويكتسب خياله‬.‫الخارقة للطبيعة كقوة أدبية‬
‫ األشياء الطيفية هي‬.‫ األشياء الخارقة للطبيعة هي تمثيالت لرغباتنا الداخلية‬.‫ومثيرا للهوس‬
ً ‫على جعل اللغز واقعيًا وحقيقيًا‬
.‫حاالت ألذهاننا‬
2-Nature ‫ الطبيعة‬: -
He considers nature as a divine spirit and believes in the moral and educative
influence of nature upon man. That is why, he is a keen lover of nature. He
believes if we are happy, nature is happy. If we are sad, nature is sad.
‫ يعتقد‬.‫ فهو من محبي الطبيعة‬، ‫ لهذا السبب‬.‫يعتبر الطبيعة رو ًحا إلهيًا ويؤمن بالتأثير األخالقي والتعليمي للطبيعة على اإلنسان‬
‫ إذا كنا حزينين فالطبيعة حزينة‬.‫ فالطبيعة سعيدة‬، ‫أنه إذا كنا سعداء‬
3-Dream ‫ حلم‬: -
He is the first and the finest dreamer in English poetry. He took a keen interest
in illusions, hallucinations, magic and dreams. A romantic poet creates his own
world of dreams which is far better than this world. He escapes from this world
into the mystic world dreams.
‫ الشاعر الرومانسي يخلق‬.‫ كان شديد االهتمام باألوهام والهلوسة والسحر واألحالم‬.‫نه أول وأروع حالم في الشعر اإلنجليزي‬
.‫ يهرب من هذا العالم إلى أحالم العالم الغامض‬.‫عالم أحالمه الخاص به والذي هو أفضل بكثير من هذا العالم‬

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 Frost at Midnight
BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

The Frost performs its secret ministry,

Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.
'Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs
And vexes meditation with its strange
And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood,
This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood,
With all the numberless goings-on of life,
Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame
Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;
Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,

Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.

Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature
Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,
Making it a companionable form,
Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit
By its own moods interprets, every where
Echo or mirror seeking of itself,
And makes a toy of Thought.

But O! how oft,

How oft, at school, with most believing mind,
Presageful, have I gazed upon the bars,
To watch that fluttering stranger ! and as oft
With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt
Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-tower,
Whose bells, the poor man's only music, rang
From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day,
So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me
With a wild pleasure, falling on mine ear
Most like articulate sounds of things to come!
So gazed I, till the soothing things, I dreamt,
Lulled me to sleep, and sleep prolonged my dreams!
And so I brooded all the following morn,

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Awed by the stern preceptor's face, mine eye
Fixed with mock study on my swimming book:
Save if the door half opened, and I snatched
A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up,
For still I hoped to see the stranger's face,
Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved,
My play-mate when we both were clothed alike!

Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,

Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,
Fill up the intersperséd vacancies
And momentary pauses of the thought!
My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart
With tender gladness, thus to look at thee,
And think that thou shalt learn far other lore,
And in far other scenes! For I was reared
In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim,
And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.
But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze
By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags
Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,
Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores
And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear
The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible
Of that eternal language, which thy God
Utters, who from eternity doth teach
Himself in all, and all things in himself.
Great universal Teacher! he shall mould
Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,

Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the night-thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.

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Lines ( 1-24)
The Frost is secretly performing its work without being helped by the wind. All
the inmates inside the cottage are sleeping and the poet is left alone.( loneliness
is good in philosophical thinking). His infant ( Hartley) is sleeping peacefully in
the cradle by his side. All the natural elements are silent ( sea, hill, wood) as
dreams. The thin blue flame of fire is motionless. The film is fluttering on the
grate. This picture reflects a sense of sympathy between the poet and this film
because both of them are awake and active. The idle spirt of the poet explains
the irregular movements of the film according to his own moods and wishes.

‫ جميع النزالء داخل الكوخ ينامون ويبقى الشاعر وشأنه (الوحدة جيدة في‬.‫ بعمله سرا دون أن تساعده الريح‬Frost ‫يقوم‬
.‫ خشب) كأحالم‬، ‫ تل‬، ‫ كل العناصر الطبيعية صامتة (بحر‬.‫ رضيعه (هارتلي) ينام بسالم في المهد بجانبه‬.)‫التفكير الفلسفي‬
‫ تعكس هذه الصورة إحساس التعاطف بين الشاعر والفيلم ألن‬.‫ الفيلم يرفرف على الشبكة‬.‫اللهب األزرق الرقيق ال يتحرك‬
.‫ يشرح سخونة الشاعر الحركات غير المنتظمة للفيلم وفقًا لمزاجه ورغباته‬.‫كالهما يقظ ونشط‬

Lines ( 24 -43)
Coleridge yearns for his past when he was a student at school. He used to
believe that the fluttering film was a prophetic symbol as someone will come.
When he saw the fluttering film, he became excited and dreamt of his sweet
birth place, the old church- tower whose bells rang from morning to evening (
All the hot- fair day ). The sweet sound of the church bells which was the only
music for the poor people considered as a symbol of a prophecy of future events
. He looked at the film, thought of his home, then to fall asleep. Even in his
dream, he dreamt of the same things (ideas) in his mind. He was afraid of his
strict teacher, so his mind was wandering here and there when he looked at his
book.

.‫صا ما سيأتي‬ ً
ً ‫رمزا نبويًا ألن شخ‬ ‫ كان يعتقد أن فيلم الرفرفة كان‬.‫ إلى ماضيه عندما كان طالبًا في المدرسة‬Coleridge ‫يتوق‬
‫ برج الكنيسة القديم الذي تدق أجراسه من‬، ‫سا وحلم بمكان والدته الجميل‬ ً ‫ أصبح متحم‬، ‫عندما شاهد الفيلم الذي يرفرف‬
ً
‫رمزا‬ ‫ كان الصوت العذب ألجراس الكنائس هو الموسيقى الوحيدة للفقراء التي تعتبر‬.)‫الصباح إلى المساء (طوال اليوم الحار‬
‫ كان يحلم بنفس األشياء (األفكار) في‬، ‫ حتى في حلمه‬.‫ ثم نام‬، ‫ وفكر في منزله‬، ‫ نظر إلى الفيلم‬.‫لنبوءة األحداث المستقبلية‬
.‫ لذلك كان عقله يتجول هنا وهناك عندما ينظر إلى كتابه‬، ‫ كان خائفًا من معلمه الصارم‬.‫ذهنه‬

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Lines ( 44-64)
The poet is calling his baby who is sleeping in the cradle in a quiet atmosphere.
He wants to fill up the gaps of his mind when he thinks one idea to the other.
Coleridge shows that his child will grow up and educated in a difference life
than his own. The poet himself was brought up away from nature in London. So
he didn't find any beautiful sights of nature except the sky and the stars. He
wants his son to bring up in natural environment. He will wander here and there
like wind by lakes and sandy shores. His baby will see the beautiful shapes and
hear the lovely sounds of nature. God teaches humanity.
Coleridge wants to say that God speaks to us through the beautiful sights and
the sounds of nature as representations of God.

‫ يُظهر‬.‫ إنه يريد أن يمأل ثغرات عقله عندما يفكر في فكرة إلى أخرى‬.‫الشاعر ينادي طفله النائم في المهد في جو هادئ‬
‫ لذلك لم يجد أي‬.‫ الشاعر نفسه نشأ بعيدًا عن الطبيعة في لندن‬.‫كوليردج أن طفله سوف يكبر ويتعلم في حياة مختلفة عن حياته‬
‫ سوف يتجول هنا وهناك مثل الرياح بالبحيرات‬.‫ يريد ابنه أن ينشأ في بيئة طبيعية‬.‫مناظر طبيعية جميلة إال السماء والنجوم‬
.‫ هللا يعلم البشرية‬.‫ سيرى طفله األشكال الجميلة ويسمع أصوات الطبيعة الجميلة‬.‫والشواطئ الرملية‬

‫يريد كوليردج أن يقول إن هللا يتحدث إلينا من خالل المشاهد الجميلة وأصوات الطبيعة كتمثيالت هلل‬